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Fair is our lot-O goodly is our heritage!
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THE COASTWISE LIGHTS
Our brows are bound with spindrift and the weed
is on our knees,
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THE SONG OF THE DEAD
Hear now the Song of the Dead-in the North by
the torn berg-edges,
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One from the ends of the earth-gifts at an open
door
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THE SONG OF THE CITIES
Royal and Dower-royal, I the Queen,
ENGLAND'S ANSWER
Truly ye come of The Blood; slower to bless than
to ban, .
THE FIRST CHANTEY
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Mine was the woman to me, darkling I found her,
THE LAST CHANTEY
Thus said The Lord in the Vault above the Cherubim,
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THE MERCHANTMEN
King Solomon drew merchantmen,
M'ANDREWS' HYMN
Lord, Thou hast made this world below the shadow
of a dream,
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THE MIRACLES
I sent a message to my dear,
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THE NATIVE-BORN
We've drunk to the Queen-God bless her!
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THE KING
"Farewell, Romance!" the Cave-men said,
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THE ANSWER
A Rose, in tatters on the garden path,
THE SONG OF THE BANJO
You couldn't pack a Broadwood half a mile,
THE LINER SHE'S A LADY
The Liner she's a lady, an' she never looks nor 'eeds, 105
MULHOLLAND'S CONTRACT
The fear was on the cattle, for the gale was on the
sea,
ANCHOR SONG
Heh! Walk her round. Heave, ah heave her short
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There's a Legion that never was 'listed, .
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THE SEA-WIFE
There dwells a wife by the Northern Gate, .
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THE LAST RHYME OF TRUE THOMAS
The King has called for priest and cup, .
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IN THE NEOLITHIC AGE
In the Neolithic Age savage warfare did I wage,
THE STORY OF UNG
Once, on a glittering ice-field, ages and ages ago,
THE THREE-DECKER
Full thirty foot she towered from waterline to rail,
I've paid for your sickest fancies; I've humoured your
crackedest whim,
SESTINA OF THE TRAMP-ROYAL
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Speakin' in general, I 'ave tried 'em all,.
BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS.
"BACK TO THE ARMY AGAIN"
I'm 'ere in a ticky ulster an' a broken billy-cock 'at,. 187
"BIRDS OF PREY" MARCH
March! The mud is cakin' good about our trousies,. 192
"SOLDIER AN' SAILOR TOO"
As I was spittin' into the Ditch aboard o' the Cro-
SAPPERS
codile,
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When the Waters were dried an' the Earth did appear, 200
THAT DAY
It got beyond all orders an' it got beyond all 'ope, 204
"THE MEN THAT FOUGHT AT MINDEN"
The men that fought at Minden, they was rookies in
their time,
CHOLERA CAMP
We've got the cholerer in camp-it's worse than forty
fights,
THE LADIES
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There was no one like 'im, 'Orse or Foot,
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Through the Plagues of Egyp' we was chasin' Arabi, 232
THE 'EATHEN
The 'eathen in 'is blindness bows down to wood an'